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Sparky
For Sparky, school was all but impossible. He failed every subject in the eighth grade. He flunked physics in high school, getting a grade of zero. Sparky also flunked Latin, algebra, and English. He didn’t do much better in sports. Although he did manager to make the school’s golf team, he promptly lost the only important match of the season. There was a consolation match; he lost that too.
Throughout his youth Sparky was awkward socially. He was not actually disliked by the other students; nobody cared that much. He was astonished if a classmate ever said hello to him outside of school hours. There’s no way to tell hoe he might have done dating. Sparky never once asked a girl to go out in high school. He was too afraid of being turned down.
Sparky was a loser. He, his classmates… Everyone knew it. So he rolled with it. Sparky made up his mind early in life that if things were meant to work out, then they would. Otherwise he would content himself with what appeared to be his inevitable mediocrity.
However, on thing was important to Sparkydrawing. He was proud of his artwork. Of course, no one else appreciated it. In his senior year of high school, he submitted some cartoons to the editor of the yearbook. The cartoons were turned down. Despite his particular rejection, Sparky was so convinced of his ability that he decided to become a professional artist.
After completing high school, he wrote a letter to Walt Disney Studios. He was told to send some samples of his artwork, and the subject for a cartoon was suggested. He spent a great deal of time on it, and on all the other drawings he submitted. Finally, a reply came from Disney Studios. He had been rejected once again. Another loss for the loser.
So Sparky decided to write his own autobiography in cartoons. He described his childhood selfa little boy loser and chronic underachiever. That cartoon character would soon become famous worldwide. For Sparky, the boy who had such lack of success in school and whos work was reject again and again, was Charles Schultz. He created the “Peanuts” comic strip and the little cartoon character whos kite would never fly and who never succeeded in kicking a football, Charlie Brown.
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